The effectiveness of traditional Japanese medicine Goshajinkigan in irradiation-induced aspermatogenesis in mice

• Main Authors: Kumpei Takahashi (Author), Kenta Nagahori (Author), Ning Qu (Author), Miyuki Kuramasu (Author), Yoshie Hirayanagi (Author), Shogo Hayashi (Author), Yuki Ogawa (Author), Naoyuki Hatayama (Author), Hayato Terayama (Author), Kaori Suyama (Author), Shuichi Hirai (Author), Kou Sakabe (Author), Masahiro Itoh (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Infertility and gonadal dysfunction are well known side-effects by cancer treatment in males. In particularly, chemotherapy and radiotherapy induced testicular damage, resulting in prolonged azoospermia. However, information regarding therapeutics to treat spermatogenesis disturb...